Who You'll Work With
We are experiencing tremendous growth and have an immediate need for a self-motivated Pre-Sales Network Systems Engineer to provide pre-sales technical support for our customers and prospects in the United Kingdom.
The Systems Engineer is a critical component of the Arista Sales team. The main responsibility of the Systems Engineer is acting as a trusted advisor to our customers and prospects to identify opportunities, gather requirements and design creative solutions.
What will you gain:
- Deep technical, dynamic, startup-like environment.
- Be part of a small, highly motivated team and make a big impact with customers and within the company.
- Deep technical collaboration with technical colleagues in EMEA and worldwide.
- Continuous on-the-job learning through direct contact with engineering & development teams.
- Gaining in-depth hands-on experience with CLI, automation, scripting and tooling.
- Netops / Devops way of working.
- Flexible work environment (home office / flex office).
- Significant responsibility and extensive decision power.
- Having Fun!
What You'll Do
- You will proactively partner with Arista Account Managers to understand and solve customer challenges and conduct (white board) network architectural sessions and Arista product presentations.
- You will architect, design and propose Arista Data Center, Routing & Campus network and security solutions to help generate new or additional sales.
- You will perform hands-on customer proof-of-concepts and (initial) network deployments using state of the art products and features.
- You will create design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they support.
- Leading technical responses to RFP/RFQs.
- Leading customer feature requests from customer requirements to implementation to deployment.
- Provide (customer) feedback to Product Management and Development.
- Represent Arista at industry events and conferences.
- Keep up-to-date on competitive solutions, products and services.
- Author white papers, blogs and articles on technology and products.
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- Currently holds DV (Developed Vetting) clearance or is able to apply within the next 12 months. Preference will be given to applicants who hold or have previously held DV clearance.
- Highly-motivated, passionate, technical, proactive and flexible team player with the willingness to step out of your comfort zone.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken).
- Sales attitude: Ability and passion to proactively work as a team to drive new business.
- Ability to travel on a National or Neighboring Country (if required) basis to support customers.
- Technical degree required.
- Networking design and implementation experience.
- Practical experience with routing and switching, including relevant protocols.
- Recent experience in Data Center, Routing and/or Campus network architecture designs.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Deep knowledge of the relevant switching and routing protocols and technologies (e.g.,Spanning Tree, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, Multicast, QoS, Network Segmentation, etc).
- Knowledge of Service Provider related technologies is a plus.
- Knowledge of Campus related technologies is a plus.
- Good understanding of the competitor technology landscape.
- Work experience as either a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales Systems Engineer or Network Consulting Engineer preferred.
- Practical security deployment experience is a plus.
- Recent hands-on CLI experience highly desired.
- Experience and/or interest in learning Netops / Devops using tools such as Python and Ansible.
- CCIE, JNCIE or Industry Equivalent certified.
